MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN : A POST COLONIAL CRITIQUE
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This document summarizes Chandani Pandya's post-colonial critique of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. The novel deals with India's history from British colonial rule to independence and the partition, told through the narration of Saleem Sinai. Pandya analyzes the novel through the conceptual framework of postcolonial theory, focusing on elements of magical realism, mimicry, hybridity, miscegenation, and postcolonial feminism. She provides examples of the novel depicting the oppression of women under patriarchal customs as well as tracing the impact of historical events like the Emergency on an Indian family.
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- 3. For its unique matters and manners this novel won him the Booker prize, 1981.
- 4. A fantastic movie directed by Deepa Mehta was made on it released in 2012
- 5. The novel deals with India's tradition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of subcontinent. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. Midnight’s children are the children born at the stroke of the midnight of 15th August 1947 that marked India’s independence. The story is narrated by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai. INtroduction
- 6. methodology The conceptual framework of Postcolonial theory is adopted to critique this novel. Content is analyzed to extract Postcolonial elements of… - Magical realism - Postcolonial Feminism - Mimicry - Hybridity - Miscegenation - Postcolonial Feminism
- 7. Postcolonial feminism Naseem is kept behind “perforated sheet” even when she has to be examined by a doctor. When doctor feels shocked and asks her father about how to examine her without looking at her. He is told by Naseem’s father Ghani that, “You Europe-returned chappies forget certain things. Doctor Shahib, my daughter is a decent girl, it goes without saying. She does not flunt her body under the noses of strange men. You will understand that you cannot be permitted to see her” (Rushdie, 2011)
- 8. Midnight’s Children traces the grotesque destiny of a Muslim Indian family from 1915 to 1977, when Indira Gandhi’s Emergency rule was about to end in a general election” (Towers, 1981) Thank you…
- 9. References Benny, C.P. (n.d.). Magic Realism as a postcolonial device in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Gupta. M. (2009). Salman Rushdie: Are-telling History Through Fiction. Prestige. Pryor. M. (n.d.). Study.com. Rushdie.S. (2011) Midnight’s children. Vintage Books.